
‘Our purpose,’ he said, ‘is to set the record straight, celebrate lives, and set forth certain aspects of history and human behavior that is good for people to read about.’Īfter 19 thoroughly researched books, he’s earned the right to say, ‘The biographer is obliged to tell the truth–even at the risk of saying something good about someone.

The author interviewed over 150 friends and colleagues.Biographer and historian Donald Spoto believes the goal of the biographer is first and foremost to tell the truth. For the first time, we are told the true story of the life and death of the most celebrated woman of the century. The Truth finally, this blockbuster biography is the only book on Marilyn to based on her own diaries and letter and private papers. It overturns many myths about Marilyn and contains several revelations about Marilyn’s life.

This biography of Marilyn Monroe based on her personal archive of over 35,000 documents – including letters, diaries, billets doux and suicide notes – aims to reveal the truth about Monroe’s death and names the names.
